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With the increasingly aging workforce in the construction industry, understanding age-related differences in the adoption and use of wearable devices is crucial, particularly as privacy concerns pose significant barriers to implementation. While previous studies have addressed challenges older workers experience in construction, limited research has explored how wearable technologies specifically impact workers across different age groups. This study investigates older and younger construction workers' attitudes, perceptions, and interactions with employer-provided wearable devices. A comprehensive survey examined key factors such as privacy concerns, data ownership issues, mental-related data privacy, and the effects of different feedback methods on safety and performance. The findings reveal that while both older and younger workers generally hold positive attitudes towards wearable devices, older workers exhibit significantly higher privacy concerns, particularly regarding collecting mental-related data, which can lead to psychological resistance. Additionally, visual feedback was identified by both groups as the most distracting, negatively impacting safety and performance, while haptic feedback emerged as the preferred method, having the least lowering effect. These insights emphasize the need for tailored strategies in designing and implementing wearable devices to address the distinct preferences and concerns of diverse age groups, ultimately improving safety and usability in high-risk construction environments.
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Accounting for Privacy Pluralism: Lessons and Strategies from Community-Based Privacy Groups
The emergent, dynamic nature of privacy concerns in a shifting sociotechnical landscape creates a constant need for privacy-related resources and education. One response to this need is community-based privacy groups. We studied privacy groups that host meetings in diverse urban communities and interviewed the meeting organizers to see how they grapple with potentially varied and changeable privacy concerns. Our analysis identified three features of how privacy groups are organized to serve diverse constituencies: situating (finding the right venue for meetings), structuring (finding the right format/content for the meeting), and providing support (offering varied dimensions of assistance). We use these findings to inform a discussion of "privacy pluralism" as a perennial challenge for the HCI privacy research community, and we use the practices of privacy groups as an anchor for reflection on research practices.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1814909
- PAR ID:
- 10485021
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- ISSN:
- 1062-9432
- ISBN:
- 9781450394215
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 12
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Hamburg Germany
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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